Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands
From: Robert P. J. Day <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-07 20:03:38
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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finally, from fedora, i am utterly unable to find a package that provides git-archimport. pretty sure fedora used to have a "git-arch" package but it's not there now.It hasn't been in Fedora since 2011. The tla command which is required for git-archimport was retired, thus we removed the git-arch package. The rpm changelog shows this: * Tue Jul 26 2011 Todd Zullinger [off-list ref] - 1.7.6-4 - Drop git-arch on fedora >= 16, the tla package has been retired As does the git history for the package: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git/c/3f0dc974fa The tla package was retired because it failed to build for several releases: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tla/blob/master/f/dead.package
huh ... well, that raises the question, if tla has been unbuildable for that long (possibly for other distros), what is the value in continuing to support git-archimport? https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-archimport.html i don't really care one way or the other, but perhaps git-archimport should be broken out as a "non-core" component of git. related post coming shortly ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================